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Is there no end to Facebook’s petty humiliations? It is now the turn of an obscure startup called Six4Three to cause the company trouble. Continue reading Facebook battles tiny startup over privacy accusations
“Upload your nudes to stop revenge porn” might sound crazy but it actually makes sense. Continue reading Facebook’s counterintuitive way to combat nonconsensual porn
A website which demands money if you want your mugshot removed, could “sharenting” lead to a rise in fraud and identity theft, and how could the FBI have overcounted encrypted phones so badly?
All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edit… Continue reading Smashing Security #079: Mugshots, mobile mania, and back end gurus
Following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on March 21 that the company would conduct an audit to identify suspicious applications that may have exploited user data. So far, 200 applications have been detected and… Continue reading Facebook removes 200 suspicious apps
Vine cofounder Dom Hofmann says he’s “very, very sorry for the disappointment.” Continue reading Vine 2 Has Been Postponed ‘Indefinitely’
Twitter has warned its 330 million users to immediately change their passwords, as a result of a bug that caused passwords to be logged in plaintext before being hashed. Although Twitter says passwords are stored using the bcrypt hashing algorithm, it … Continue reading Twitter Plain Text Password Bug Prompts Users for Immediate Password Change
The admission is part of an effort to explain how unlike Facebook Twitter is. Continue reading Twitter sold user data to Cambridge Analytica’s Aleksandr Kogan
Earlier this month the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued a warning to telecoms firms about the potential risks posed by devices manufactured by Chinese-state owned enterprise ZTE. “NCSC assess that the national security risk… Continue reading Flawed routers with hardcoded passwords were manufactured by firm that posed “national security risk” to UK
The European Union’s long-awaited privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), takes effect May 25. The law says companies operating across the EU, and implicitly dealing with citizens’ data, must clearly inform users how the… Continue reading Younger than 16? No more WhatsApp for you in Europe